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Last September he founded Paix et Liberté (Peace and Freedom), an organization dedicated to the single task of fighting Communist lies. Said David: "All Frenchmen know that for the last four years their country has been submitted to a gigantic offensive designated to pave the way for their conquest and enslavement. Frenchmen know that all means are used . . . and first of all the lie ... This is what we are here to expose...
Washington's National Gallery opened a long-awaited loan show this week: 40 paintings from the collection of Oil Tycoon Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian. Publicity-hating Gulbenkian, one of the richest men in the world (TIME, June 16, 1947 et seq.), was not on hand for the festivities; at 84, the Near East genius spends most of his time in his adopted Lisbon...
Goetz's Van Gogh, entitled Sluay by Candlelight (TIME, June 6, 1949 et seq.), had been bitterly debated by top art experts of both the U.S. and Europe. Some declared it was genuine, others were convinced that it was forged. A jury of specialists appointed by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum reported that the picture was suspiciously "strident in color, weak in drawing and uncertain in the modeling of the head" (TIME...
...slices of Gary's pudding that have been served in the U.S. since 1936, the best have been his trilogy novels, Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse's Mouth (TIME, Sept. 20, 1948 et seq.). In these books Gary shows himself a master of the novelist's true business: creating characters who stick in the memory. No one who has once met that latter-day Moll Flanders, Sara Monday, and that loudmouthed old horsethief and painter, Gulley Jimson, is likely to forget them...
University faculties throughout the U.S. have been debating this question ever since the regents of the University of California issued their famous "sign or resign" ultimatum to the California faculty last winter (TIME, March 6 et seq.). This week, in a book review* in the New York Sunday Times, a cool and collected sifting of the question came from New York University's Sidney Hook, eminent philosopher and political liberal...